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Weathering With You: An Agorist Perspective

If someone asked you what your favorite emotion was, how do you think you’d answer? For many people, I suspect they would answer “Happiness”, “Joy'', or some variant of exclusively positive emotion. Someone may think more meticulously and answer with “Contentment”, which while a positive emotion has a lot of nuance attached to it. However my answer to that question is what I feel others would consider more orthodox: Bittersweet. Pleasure accompanied by suffering, not exactly most people’s first pick but from my perspective pain is necessary in order to enjoy the pleasure that life gives you. Perhaps I'm over-romanticizing but there’s something to desire from looking back fondly at times where you were hurting and seeing yourself in a better place in the present. Perhaps you finally have moved on from “The one who got away” and can look back on those times with fondness. Perhaps you are sharing stories of a friend or family member at their funeral and though they may never w

An Agorist Theory on the Stock Market

There are few subjects that are as touchy as the Stock Market to bring up in a casual conversation in some of my (off-line) social circles - And for a good reason! Like with all good ideas, once the state has laid its evil roots at the core of it, it turns slowly into a bastardized version of what it is supposed to be.  I will use my agorist lense to look at the concept and give you my view on one of the most powerful markets available to us freedom-loving people and what is required to unleash it. The idea of the Stock Businesses and entrepreneurs face several problems when they try and establish themselves on the market: Can you find and convince costumers of the value of your product (marketing)? How do you create these things you want to produce (knowledge)? How do you get it into the hands of your customer (distribution)? Should I have storage (logistics)? How do I get the capital to start or expand (finance)? The last part is what the stocks are made to help out

Apartment Grown Resistance - Green fingered Agorism

Let's face facts: Every time you shop at a grocery store with a sales tax on food, you are lending a hand in your own suppression. Cultivating your own food supply is a practical and effective way to oppose the state - Today we are taking a look on how to not support the government through your dinner plate, from the comfort of your own apartment!  Beans, Peppers, and Tomatoes growing on my kitchen counter. Modern apartments are not set-up for growing foods in any practical way. Your interior design is probably made for things like leisure and sleeping. You might not even have access to a backyard or a balcony. Not having a single green finger on either of your hands might also be troublesome.  These things and more are problems and the problems just keep on stacking - It seems impossible at first, an uphill battle designed to hold you back. Let me give you a secret: It is not impossible to be self-sustaining on food, even in a small apartment. You just need to chan